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God Can Intervene in Creation, in Evolution

Series:

Love Matters

Week:

10

Love Matters are wisdom words from Fr. Thomas Keating spoken during the filming of the new series God is Love: The Heart of All Creation. Some are included in the series; others are from footage published here for the first time. A new word will be posted every Monday throughout the year. May they serve to inspire hope and lift your heart.

So evolution then is better understood if we take into account three ways that things can happen. First of all, God can intervene in the creation and in the evolution. Move it along faster. Raise up certain people or prophets or experiences that further that plan which as I say seems to be to share as much of the divine life as our created limitations can possibly receive and more. In any case God’s perfect right and capability and power can intervene in any point, anywhere, in anything - however small or large - so he’s totally the God of all that is. And so the people who are concerned about evolution doing away with God is simply what they mean by evolution and now that’s not the only way to understand it.